AINT THAT SUMP' N, WHAT THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS IS GOOD AT IS GAS LIGHTING By William Thorpe

I begin with Indiana University-Bloomington, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Kate Abramson, has a book, ON GAS LIGHTING and we call on her to interrogate The Virginia Department Of Corrections and seriously include it in her scholarship on Gas Lighting. Secondly we also call on Dr. Robin Stern and Dr. Jessica Taylor who are also experts on the phenomenon of Gas Lighting to lend their prodigious expertise towards the work of bringing a much needed transparency and accountability to the impunity and above the law presumptions of The Virginia Department Of Corrections by way of its Gas Lighting proclivities and incorrigible instincts. Let me begin by declaring and not simply stating, but declaring that every single aspect and work of The Virginia Department Of Corrections is a Gas Light, beginning with, the very law that legimizes its operations, VIRGINIA CODE 53.1.Initially my intentions were to simply use the tsunami like wake of chronicled contradictions and antagonisms of prison official violations, attesting to how The Department, has forever cavalierly swamped The Commonwealth and its people with pure and unbridled harm, to declare its gas lighting work. Then true to form, The Department, a few weeks ago issued a press release claiming of all things, VADOC (Virginia Department Of Corrections) MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM BECOMES INAUGURAL SITE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE-MENTAL HEALTH LEARNING SITES PROGRAM, which presents another crass anecdote of its pursuit of petty opportunism as such I'd rather use this latest gambit as another illustrative data point. Now people we all get it that penology, psychology, criminology, psychiatry, sociology and theology are all speculative endeavors. Each one a fiefdom defended by its beneficiaries, as such the dynamic operative requires gas lighting and as I started this work by asking for the attention of the named expert inquisitors, I leave its comprehensive interrogation to them. But what I can say is this: the fundamental and primary world view of The Virginia Department of Corrections is, "to punish, to proscribe, to pervert, to dehumanize, "and from these instincts we arrive at all sorts of synonymic extrapolations fueled by abject gratuity and prison official impunity. So we are being asked, to wit, gas lighted, to accept from The Virginia Department of Corrections, that despite its instinct to punish and dehumanize, it is an objective medium and means of providing care and treatment for persons suffering from the various forms and expressions of mental health issues? Hell this presumption itself is a clear example and indicator of a mental health issue. The Virginia Department of Corrections is as all other realizations of The Social Contract, in other words the varied relations and interactions defining the aggregate social order, an economic fact. It is first and foremost a means for The Commonwealth to infuse money into society through the prison worker. So it isn't complicated to recognize that the prison official will gas light in defense of their goose laying their paychecks. But there is another angle to this, which is the complicity of all the major Social institutions, by their silence.

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit